“…A great deal of research delving into the existence of a local variety of English in the Philippines (Bautista, 2011;Bolton & Bautista, 2008) is undoubtedly very useful in revealing the phonological, morphological, and syntactic variations in PhE (Philippine English). Research findings of corpus analysis (Alonsagay & Nolasco, 2010;Bautista, 2000Bautista, , 2001Borlongan, 2008Borlongan, , 2011Dita, 2011;Gustilo, 2011;Tayao, 2008) evidently show that PhE has its own phonological, lexical, and syntactic peculiarities propagated by the circle of educated Filipino speakers, e.g., media practioners, educators, and college learners.…”